Alaska Administrative Code
Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development
Part 3 - Workers' Compensation
Chapter 45 - Compensation, Medical Benefits, and Proceedings Before the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board
8 AAC 45.220 - Gross weekly earnings
Current through February 27, 2024
(a) After calculating the gross weekly earnings less the payroll tax deductions under AS 23.30.220, the result will be rounded to the nearest dollar.
(b) The calculation of an employee's gross weekly earnings set out in (c) of this section applies to each of the following periodic payments:
(c) In calculating an employee's gross weekly earnings, each of the terms set out in (b) of this section means periodic payments made by an employer to an employee for employment before any authorized or lawfully required deduction or withholding of money by the employer; for purposes of this subsection,
(d) For purposes of calculating the gross weekly earnings under AS 23.30.220 and (c) of this section for an injury that occurred before July 1, 2000,
EXAMPLE
1. An employee works 48 hours in a week and does not receive contributions that would be added under this section. The employee's regular rate of pay for the first 40 hours is $10 an hour or $400 ($10 x 40 = $400); the rate of pay for the excess 8 hours is $15 an hour or $120 ($15 x 8 = $120). The actual weekly total earnings are $520 ($400 + $120). For purposes of computing the gross weekly earnings, the employee's weekly earnings would be $480 (48 hours times $10 an hour).
2. An employee is paid $8 per hour and there are no contributions that would be added under this section. The employee never worked more than 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week. The earnings period used to compute the gross weekly earnings included New Year's Day. Because the employee worked New Year's Day, a holiday, the employee was paid "premium pay" of an additional $2 per hour, or $10 per hour. In computing the gross weekly earnings, the weekly earnings for that week are $320 (40 hours at $8 per hour), and not the actual weekly earnings of $336 (32 hours at $8 per hour and 8 hours at $10 per hour).
Authority:AS 23.30.005
AS 23.30.220